“I decided I wanted to be a pilot when I was 16 after visiting a joint naval and air force base,” Raballo said. Aside from her father and uncles’ compulsory one year of service, Raballo is the first in her family to dedicate her career to military service. Raballo is from Alba in the commune of Piedmont in northwest Italy. “My desire is to be the first one of many and I hope I’ll be an inspiration for many other women in all lines of work, not because I’m special, but for the exact opposite I came from a small town, with no military background whatsoever and with willingness and hard work I was able to make my dream come true.” “Being the first female Italian navy jet pilot is an amazing feeling,” Raballo said.
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She returned to her squadron mates waiting on the Training Air Wing 1 flight line for a traditional “soft winging” ceremony during which Angermann presented Raballo with a fabric patch emblazoned with the Wings of Gold.
Raballo conducted her final graded curriculum event in a T-45C Goshawk jet trainer aircraft on March 10. She and her classmates worked hard to get to this point and what they can and will accomplish in the future is limitless.” “She has proven she is a capable, competent warfighter ready to take her strike aviation training to the next level.
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Since the movie filmed in 2018, he’s had multiple other roles as an extra in major films, including playing a sniper in Marvel’s Shang-Chi.“We are all incredibly proud of Ensign Raballo,” VT-9 Commanding Officer Cmdr. He said this experience also helped launch him into his next career: acting. If anyone wants to keep an eye out for him, he said he’s in the scenes at the bar and also on the beach. And he’s like I could actually see this story happening," said Lito. As military guys we always poke holes in all the movies, like that’s so fake. "He said the story was totally plausible. Lito said his friend was able to see the early screening of the movie and told him that for a Hollywood film, the storyline was accurate. Tom Cruise spoke to me personally, he’s so so nice," he said, adding that he felt guilty for how long Cruise spent talking to him at the premiere. "The cast and crew were so so nice to us, very respectful of the military, very appreciative of us. He said Tom Cruise and all the stars of the movie were incredibly kind, both during filming and at the red carpet premiere. My whole family was there and all my friends from the military… it's quite an honor to get piped ashore,” he said, pausing as he talked about his retirement ceremony. It was a great time, I get choked up thinking about it. “My retirement ceremony was on the flight deck, the exact same location where this red carpet experience was.
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That continued to bring his story full circle because of the event’s location on the USS Midway. He then attended the red carpet event on the USS Midway to mark the premiere of the film in San Diego. Not only did they wear their own pilot jumpsuits, but parts of the set were in places where he actually trained and spent time on base. He added that Paramount Pictures did an incredible job of keeping the accuracy as much as possible. We were in the bar and we were having as much fun as it looks like we're having,” he said, referring to the bar scene. So many of my pilot buddies were with me. “Filming Top Gun was like a reunion for me.
He said a majority of the extras in movie were all military, so the scenes of them hanging out at a well-known bar on base were genuine.
You’ve probably seen in the trailer some beach scenes and bar scenes, I was in all of those,” he said. “We filmed it here at North Island on the beach.
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